The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

I wish to have a muscular body.

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.